Paul L. Nevins has been a trial attorney in private practice since 1982. He is  admitted to the  Massachusetts Bar, Federal District Court for Massachusetts and First Circuit Court of Appeals Mr. Nevins is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the National  Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He is also a member of the American Bar  Association and served on its national advisory committee.

Although a sole practitioner, Attorney Nevins has been involved in extensive, complex civil  cases throughout his legal career. In most cases, he has prosecuted claims as a plaintiff’s attorney  on behalf of employees who have been victims of age, sex, race or disability discrimination.  Early in his career, he represented the prevailing plaintiff in Denton v. Boilermakers Union,  Local 29, 650 F. Supp. 1151 (D. Mass., 1986), a race discrimination case in which Judge Wolf  found a continuing civil rights violation that permitted the plaintiff to roll back his statute of  limitations with respect to damages.

Nevins was also the lead attorney for the plaintiff in the seminal case of Iwata v. Intel Corp, 349  F. Supp. 2d 135 (D. Mass., 2004) (Young, J.). In that case, Attorney Nevins was also able to  persuade the federal court that the refusal of an insurance company to honor the terms of a  long-term disability policy violated the cognate provisions of the Americans with Disabilities  Act (ADA ), 42 U.S.C. § 12101- et seq.; that its provisions were more expansive and trumped  any contrary provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 USC §  1001; and, for that reason, the kind of policy in question violated Ms. Iwata’s rights and  potentially could discriminate against millions of Americans who became disabled because of  emotional traumas or illnesses.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Paul Nevins taught History and English in the Boston Public  Schools from 1971 through 1982. He also taught the “National Street Law” project and a moral  development curriculum, which he created based upon his work with Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg. In  addition, he served as a consultant to the Education Development Center.

While teaching, Mr. Nevins was elected to served as a member of the Executive Board of the  Boston Teachers Union, Local 66, AFT / AFL-CIO, and served was the first chairman of union’s  desegregation committee. He was also a delegate to the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers  and the American Federation of Teachers. Mr. Nevins is also a board former member of the  Executive Board of the Citywide Education Coalition, where he served as chairman of its  Personnel and Grievance Committee.

Paul Nevins served as a conscript in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970 as a personnel  specialist and as a German language translator-interpreter. In 1969, he was a founder and first  chairman of GIs for Peace at Fort Bliss, Texas. It was the first organization of active duty  soldiers who publicly opposed the Vietnam War.

Mr. Nevins earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in 1966 from Suffolk University. He  received a Master’s Degree in Politics from New York University in 1968 with a concentration in  Political Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences. He wrote his Master’s Thesis on the politics of T.H. Green.  Later, in 1982, he graduated from Suffolk University Law School and  received a Juris Doctor Degree

 He is also the author of The Politics of Selfishness: How John Locke’s  Legacy Is Paralyzing America (Praeger, ABC-CLIO. 2010).

Mr. Nevins lives in Boston. He is married  to Virginia E. (Davis) Nevins. They have two daughters, Lauren Anne (Nevins) Romeo and Diana Mary  Nevins, and a grandson and granddaughter.